The 12th edition of Management Control Systems provides concepts, text, and cases for a course in management control systems. The book is designed to allow students to gain knowledge, insights, and analytical skills related to how a firm's managers go about designing, implementing, and using planning and control systems to implement a firm's strategies. It does not deal extensively with topics …
The automatic camera, the truck suspension, and the automatic production line are examples of a marriage between electronic control systems and mechanical engineering. Such control systems generally use microprocessors as controllers and have electrical sensors extracting information from the mechanical inputs and outputs via electrical actuators to mechanical systems. The term mechatronics is…